2019–2020 season

Last updated on April 22, 2020.

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Fall 2019

Tournament name	NAQT Collegiate Novice	EFT	Penn Bowl	ACF Fall	Fall Open	Delta Burke
Full name	NAQT Collegiate Novice	Early Fall Tournament	Penn Bowl	ACF Fall	Fall Open	Delta Burke
Slot name	“Early Fall Novice”	“Fall Medium 1”	“Fall Medium 2”	ACF Fall	“Fall Open”	“Late Fall Novice”
Difficulty (target audience)	Easy ●	Medium ●●	Regionals ●●●	Easy ●	Nationals ●●●◖	Easy ●
Eligibility (unless noted)		Closed; HS allowed; chimera by permission		Closed; HS-only mirrors	Open
Packet submission				Required if not new team
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons	Collegiate Novice ICCS VCU Novice EACNT	EFT 2018 EFT 2017 EFT 2016 MFT PADAWAN IFT	past Penn Bowls Terrapin DRAGOON QUARK	past ACF Falls	PIANO CMST TTIAC “stanford housewrite” George Oppen Cane Ridge Revival	past Delta Burkes
Announced on		4/16/19	5/20/19	8/5/19	11/27/18	9/11/19
First mirror	9/21	9/28 9/21 (online playtest)	10/19	11/2	11/9	11/9
Last mirror	10/26	1/19	12/14	11/3	12/7	6/6
Mirrors	11 (see on map)	20 (see 19 on map)	15 (see on map)	20 (see on map)	9 (see on map)	6 (see on map)
☆ Online playtest		9/21 Online Open
☆ Online		1/19 Online HS HS only open	11/30 Online		12/7 Online	1/18 Online 6/6 Online HS only
☆ New England		10/5 MIT	10/19 Harvard	11/2 Yale
☆ New York	9/28 RIT			11/2 RIT
☆ N. Mid-Atlantic	10/12 Johns Hopkins cancelled 10/26 Swarthmore cancelled	10/5 Columbia 10/5 UMD 12/7 Penn HS only	10/19 Penn	11/2 UMD	11/9 NYU
☆ S. Mid-Atlantic		10/5 North Carolina	10/27 North Carolina	11/2 Duke	11/16 Virginia	2/29 Virginia Tech
☆ Upper South	10/12 JCTC					11/9 Jefferson CC
☆ Deep South	9/21 Georgia Tech	10/5 Auburn	10/26 Auburn	11/3 Georgia Tech	11/23 Georgia Tech
☆ Florida	9/22 Florida	10/5 UCF	10/26 UCF	11/2 Florida		11/9 Valencia
☆ Texas/Louisiana		9/28 Rice	10/19 UT-Austin	11/2 UT-Austin	11/16 UT-Austin
☆ Southwest		10/26 Arizona State
☆ S. California		10/26 UCSD cancelled		11/2 UCLA
☆ N. California	10/26 Stanford	10/5 Stanford	10/19 Stanford	11/2 Berkeley 11/2 Berkeley HS only	11/16 Stanford
☆ Pacific Northwest		10/19 Boise State	11/30 Washington Open	11/2 Washington HS allowed
☆ Rocky Mountains				11/2 Colorado
☆ Great Plains
☆ Missouri	9/21 Missouri cancelled	10/5 WUSTL	10/26 Truman State	11/2 Missouri		3/7 Missouri S&T
☆ Upper Midwest	9/21 Minnesota	10/5 Minnesota	10/19 Minnesota Open	11/2 Minnesota
☆ Central Midwest	10/12 Chicago		12/14 New Trier HS only	11/2 Chicago 11/2 Chicago HS only	11/16 UIUC
☆ Eastern Midwest	9/21 Michigan 9/21 CMU	10/12 Michigan State	10/19 Michigan HS allowed	11/2 OSU
☆ Canada	9/21 Toronto 9/28 Carleton	10/5 Toronto	10/26 Queen’s	11/2 Carleton	11/23 McMaster
☆ UK		9/29 Oxford Magdalen Open 10/19 Oxford Brookes 10/19 Glasgow	10/26 Cambridge	11/2 Warwick	11/23 Southampton
☆ Asia				11/2 Yale-NUS Singapore
Question content is not clear until at least	never	3/6confirmed clear	12/30confirmed clear	11/4confirmed clear	12/10confirmed clear	11/23confirmed clear
Packets on archive?	never	2019 EFT packets	2019 Penn Bowl packets	2019 ACF Fall packets	2019 Fall Open packets	2019 Delta Burke packets

Spring 2020

Tournament name	MWT	ACF Regionals	NAQT SCT	WORKSHOP	Terrapin Open	LIT	SUN	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Full name	Michigan Winter Tournament	ACF Regionals	NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament	WORKSHOP	Terrapin Open	Longhorn Invitational Tournament	Spring Undergraduate Novice	NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament	ACF Nationals
Slot name	“Winter Medium”	ACF Regionals	NAQT SCT	“Spring Medium 1”	“Spring Open”	“Spring Medium 2”	“Spring Novice”	NAQT ICT	ACF Nationals
Difficulty (target audience)	Medium ●●	Regionals ●●●	Regionals (or Easy in Div II) ●●● (or ● in Div II)	Regionals ●●●	Nationals ●●●◖	Medium ●●	Easy ●	Nationals (or Med. in Div II) ●●●● (or ●● in Div II)	Nationals ●●●●
Eligibility (unless noted)	Closed; HS allowed; special exceptions by permission	Closed			Open	Closed; HS allowed	Closed; HS-only mirrors	Qualify at NAQT SCT	Qualify at ACF Regionals
Packet submission		Required half-packet							Optional
Example tournaments in this slot in past seasons	Spartan Housewrite Oxford Open/OAT WIT	past ACF Regionals WAO MLK VCU Closed	past NAQT SCTs	PADAWAN	PIANO CMST TTIAC “stanford housewrite” George Oppen Cane Ridge Revival	Terrapin 2019 SMT EMT MYSTERIUM	FST SUN MUT EMT SMT	past NAQT ICTs	past ACF Nationals
Announced on	4/3/19	9/27/19	11/1/19	7/1/19	8/14/19	6/5/19	8/8/19	1/25/20	9/20/19
First mirror	1/11 12/21 (online playtest)	1/25	2/8	2/22	2/22	3/14 3/8 (online playtest)	3/7	4/4	4/18
Last mirror	3/21	1/25	2/8	5/23	4/18	5/9	5/9	4/4	8/8
Mirrors	11 (see 10 on map)	14 (see on map)	15 (see on map)	11 (see on map)	5 (see on map)	1	4 (see on map)	0	0
☆ Online playtest	12/21 Online Open					3/8 Online Open
☆ Online	3/21 Online Open			3/7 Online 4/25 Online Open 5/2 Online	3/28 Online 4/18 UK Online		4/11 Penn State Online nearby teams only 4/19 Online Open 5/3 Online HS only
☆ New England	2/22 Harvard	1/25 Yale	2/8 MIT	5/2 NYU HS only cancelled	2/29 Brown	TBD Harvard cancelled
☆ New York	2/29 RIT cancelled		2/8 Cornell
☆ N. Mid-Atlantic	2/15 Rutgers	1/25 Rutgers	2/8 Penn	3/21 Swarthmore cancelled	2/22 UMD	3/28 Johns Hopkins cancelled 5/9 Ridgewood HS HS only cancelled	4/11 Princeton cancelled
☆ S. Mid-Atlantic	2/1 VCU	1/25 North Carolina		2/29 NC State cancelled		3/21 Duke cancelled
☆ Upper South
☆ Deep South	1/18 Auburn	1/25 Georgia Tech	2/8 Auburn	2/29 Georgia	2/22 Georgia Tech	3/21 Auburn cancelled	3/28 South Carolina cancelled
☆ Florida		1/25 Florida	2/8 UCF	3/28 UCF cancelled		3/21 Florida cancelled	4/11 Florida cancelled
☆ Texas/Louisiana	2/22 North Texas	1/25 Rice	2/8 UT-Austin	2/29 UT-Austin		3/14 UT-Austin cancelled 3/28 Texas Invitational HS only cancelled
☆ Southwest
☆ S. California	2/1 UCSD	1/25 UCSD	2/8 UCLA	2/23 USC HS allowed
☆ N. California			2/8 Berkeley	2/22 Stanford	3/14 Stanford cancelled	TBD Stanford cancelled
☆ Pacific Northwest		1/25 British Columbia	2/8 Washington			5/2 Washington cancelled	4/25 Washington cancelled
☆ Rocky Mountains	TBD Colorado cancelled		2/8 Colorado			3/14 BYU cancelled
☆ Great Plains		1/25 Kansas State
☆ Missouri			2/8 Missouri
☆ Upper Midwest	2/29 Iowa	1/25 Minnesota	2/8 Minnesota	3/21 Minnesota Open cancelled			3/28 Minnesota cancelled		4/18 Minnesota cancelled
☆ Central Midwest		1/25 UIUC	2/8 Purdue	3/1 Illinois HS NASAT	3/14 Purdue cancelled	3/21 UIUC cancelled 4/11 UIUC HS only cancelled	5/9 Chicago cancelled	4/4 Chicago, IL cancelled	8/8 Northwestern cancelled
☆ Eastern Midwest	1/18 Michigan	1/25 CMU	2/8 Michigan	2/29 Michigan State			4/11 Penn State cancelled
☆ Canada	1/11 Waterloo	1/25 Toronto	2/8 Toronto	3/7 Toronto	3/29 Toronto cancelled		3/8 Toronto 3/14 Carleton cancelled
☆ UK		1/25 Oxford Brookes		5/23 UK Online
☆ Asia
Question content is not clear until at least	4/16confirmed clear	1/27confirmed clear	never	7/21confirmed clear	4/20confirmed clear	1/19confirmed clear	1/14confirmed clear	never	4/20
Packets on archive?	2020 MWT packets	2020 ACF Regionals packets	never	2020 WORKSHOP packets	2020 Terrapin Open packets	2020 LIT packets	2020 SUN packets	never

Summary

Fall 2019

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Sep 14	Sep 21	Sep 28	Oct 5	Oct 12	Oct 19	Oct 26	Nov 2	Nov 9	Nov 16	Nov 23	Nov 30	Dec 7	Dec 14	Dec 21	Dec 28	≥
NAQT Collegiate Novice	●	11			6 ª*	2		2 *		1 *
EFT	●●	20			PT º˘	2 ª˘	10	1	3	1 *						1 ˘				1 ªº˘†
Penn Bowl	●●●	15							6 ˘²	6 ª					2 º˘		1 ˘		†
ACF Fall	●	20									20 ª˘³†
Fall Open	●●●◖	9										1	4	3		1 º†
Delta Burke	●	6										2								4 º²˘†
Total mainstream mirrors		69			6	4	10	3	8	8	17	3	4	3	1					2

Spring 2020

Tournament name	Difficulty	Known mirrors	≤	Jan 18	Jan 25	Feb 1	Feb 8	Feb 15	Feb 22	Feb 29	Mar 7	Mar 14	Mar 21	Mar 28	Apr 4	Apr 11	Apr 18	Apr 25	May 2	May 9	May 16	≥
MWT	●●	11	2 º˘	2		2		1	2	1 *			1 º˘			†
ACF Regionals	●●●	14			14 †
NAQT SCT	●●● or ●	15					15
WORKSHOP	●●●	11							2 ª˘	4 ª*˘	2 º		*²	*				1 º˘	1 º*			1 †
Terrapin Open	●●●◖	5							2	1		*²		1 º*			1 º†
LIT	●●	1									PT ªº˘	0 *²	*⁴	*²		*			*	*		†
SUN	●	4									1 ª	*		*²		1 º*³˘	1 ªº˘	*	1 ªº˘	*		†
NAQT ICT	●●●● or ●●	0													0 *
ACF Nationals	●●●●	0															0 *†					*
Total mainstream mirrors		48	1	2	14	2	15	1	5	5	2											1

Cancelled mirrors this year: 38

The usual numbers of mainstream mirrors per week are conveyed in this plot of all such mirrors since Fall 2017 (as of November 2021).

Key

• Difficulty is rated on the following four-level scale. Read more about the difficulty scale here.

  Dots	Difficulty	Difficulty is most comfortable for			Example (non-definitional)
  		Beginners	Intermediates	Experts
  ●	Easy	✓︎	✓︎		2017 ACF Fall
  ●●	Medium	✓︎	✓︎	✓︎	2020 ACF Winter or 2017 EFT
  ●●●	Regionals	︎	✓	✓︎	2018 ACF Regionals
  ●●●●	Nationals	︎	︎	✓︎	2018 ACF Nationals and above

• Question marks (as in “NAQT Collegiate Novice??”) indicate degree of guesswork/uncertainty because no information/announcement has been posted yet.

• Summary displays all of the season’s known tournaments at a glance, binned by week. All information is subject to change. Symbols: º = at least one online mirror; ª = at least one mirror not on Saturday; * = at least one cancelled mirror; ˘ = at least one mirror with exceptional eligibility; † = set content is not confirmed clear until at least this week; active mirror period; ideal mirror period (or “preferred mirroring window”); PT = early online playtest mirror; bold = at least 5 mirrors during this week; date = date is N weeks after the first mirror. Totals do not count cancelled or TBD mirrors, and “mainstream mirrors” of college quizbowl do not count high school or online mirrors.